Will Dors is director of music at the Church of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford. He says William Bird composed a great deal of music for the Catholic Mass. But remarkably he also composed Anglican services, which he thought was heretical. "Bird very much stands at a kind of historical hinge or turning point"
Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a large constituency of fed-up youths. We look at the early returns. A year ago Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, announced a tremendous shift in defence policy and funding; we ask how far the warship has turned since then. And remembering Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite composer.
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